Announcement

Submitted by Sam Pierson on Fri, 2012-09-28 05:01

Lindsay Perigo's 'The Total Passion for the Total Height' is now available on Amazon for Kindle.

Just as Perigo can light up the switchboard on talkshow radio, this work will light up the mind of its reader because, as Wimbledon finalist and friend Chris Lewis says in the Foreword, "he's going to make you think."

Those who value thinking and an independent spirit will find a unique source of personal fuel as they follow Perigo's evaluations of the philosophical landscape, his no-holds-barred aesthetic and cultural commentaries, and his accounts of his heroes.

Those comfortable with the status quo, with consensus-building, with further political extension into private life, will find a worthy opponent and may risk conversion.

Subtitled 'Life, Liberty ... and the Pursuit of Their Enemies' it is salvo after passionate salvo for the advance of liberty and reason. Boldly militant and genuinely caring, like a Mencken or modern-day Voltaire, Perigo challenges the status quo with wit, intelligence and urgency. He clears away cant. He speaks from mind and heart. He wants to change the world.

Nicholas, author of Old Nick's Guide to Happiness, is making his way through Total Passion with a view to doing an Amazon review. Two comments thus far, reproduced with his permission:

The NIOF article had me in stitches while the fan mail piece almost made me weep. If a writer can make his readers laugh and cry in Chapter 1 he's got to be doing something right! Loved the Age of Crap too.

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Now about 1/4 of the way through. Obviously, I do disagree with some parts but it's generally so entertaining that doesn't matter. Adored your tongue lashing of the Islamogoblins. Wondered how you've managed to survive, really.

Welcome aboard. Not sure about a hard copy. We got rather weary of publishers purporting to welcome its controversial content and generally praising it to the skies but then declining to publish the thing. That's why we went with Kindle.

Any chance a hard copy will be produced in the near future? I don't enjoy reading text on a computer screen (well not for an extended period of time) and I like to hold the book I'm reading. I'd I also like to take the book with me when I travel.

Work Sam. This book has been a long time coming. Thank Galt for the internet and a bit of do-it-yourself ingenuity. Linz I hope you've opened a good Shiraz to celebrate this release! I look forward to delving in!

"What about the product and the fact that it is accessible now to worldwide readership?"

...unless I'm mistaken, this material is widely available via the internet. That's a worldwide readership already.

I applauded the effort to compose it into one download.

When I speak of a book by Lindsay, I speak of an original publication, not a compendium, along the lines of which he started here, as I mentioned, about the progress of philosophical thought culminating in Objectivism.

But a better thing would be an original publication by Lindsay describing Objectivist thought within the modern world.

The effort? What about the product and the fact that it is accessible now to worldwide readership? And the book does describe Objectivist thought within the modern world, often. Hellooooooo it's written by Lindsay! What's wrong with you? "The circus not good enough for yer?? Ye have to run off to join the coal mines??"

"If I have opened the floodgates to subjectivism, intrinsicism, altruism, collectivism, hedonism, whim-worship, rationalism and empiricism, not to mention Saddamy, pomo-wankerism, vegetarianism and Luke Setzer's flow-charts, then I'm more than willing to stand corrected."

But a better thing would be an original publication by Lindsay describing Objectivist thought within the modern world.

He had the basis for that in short, curtailed, series of posts a few years ago in this very forum. He never went on with it. It could have been a very nice primer expanding into something truly edifying.

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